Ages ago when I took online classes, I could do the bulk of the assignments without monitoring, but the exams had to be proctored, and there were strict requirements regarding who could proctor. Obviously if proctors for the ACT and SAT can be bought, then so can proctors for individual courses. Now you can get credit through ASU for a handful of coursed on edX, but they require video monitoring for exams.
USC statement that may expel or revoke admission - seems silent on already graduated
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-education-cheating-idUSKCN1R01JC?
UC Berkeley : “Integrity in our admissions process is critically important. Students who do not adhere to that value may have their admissions offer revoked, enrolled students may be dismissed, and diplomas conferred may be revoked.” https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/03/18/uc-berkeley-opens-investigation-linked-to-college-admissions-scandal/
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Lori Loughlin hires former DoJ lawyer who prosecuted Enron CEOs - and once told them they could not ‘buy their way out’ of the scandal - to defend her in college bribery case
College Admissions Scandal Relied on More Students Using SAT Accommodation
The College Board says it is cooperating with authorities, unaware of other similar plots
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This man can get any test score on demand — he’s the secret weapon in the college cheating scandal
UC Berkeley now involved in scandal according to news.
It appears that the kid’s dad did pay to have someone takes his SAT, but that it the only thing that is confirmed. No claim (yet) that any coach was bribed. The kid did crew for four years in HS and was a coxswain, so it’s entirely possible that he was recruited as a walk-on and ‘tipped’ by the coach. (Sure, he’s rather big for a cox now, but he coulda had a growth spurt as a senior – his local paper lists him as smaller.)
“How do online courses both in HS and college confirm that the student is the one taking the course?”
Per other comments, final /midterm is on campus and you must show ID. This is why very few state universities and colleges have “fully online” options, even for those who are incarcerated.
I don’t think it’s relevant to this thread though because it has long been known that there is cheating in private for-profits and in some particularly corrupt areas, including low-quality online schools. The distinction between ASU and University of Phoenix and how they run their programs is fairly obvious.
The question of cheating the proctor is to my mind entirely different and requires a whole new level of corruption in the system.
As I understand it, the team (or school?) average has to be a certain AI, not every individual athlete. Very desired athletes with low AIs can get in and high AI athletes can carry them.
IMO the fact that recruited athletes have their own completely separate near-guaranteed admission made that system a very attractive target for this kind of fraud.
This stuff about the athletes grades being so low is weird because there is a kid at my D’s school who is a really good athlete, but his 3.2GPA was a dealbreaker for a number of schools.
https://calbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=2759 listed him as 6’0" and 125 pounds when he was on the 2015 team (the only year listed). That is quite skinny, but his weight is right about where coxwains aim to be (just above the 120 pound minimum).
It does look like he was a genuine coxwain while in high school, at 5’10" and 113 pounds then, according to https://theprovince.com/sports/high-school/adversity-award-jordan-sidoo (from 2014).
I hope you realize that athletes in non revenue sports won’t be admitted if they don’t have high AIs
How are these additional schools and students being found out? Is it from the initial investigation, tips or are the colleges themselves exposing additional fraud?
They have Singer’s entire client list, business and foundation tax returns, bank records, travel and hotel details, etc. …from all of that it is just a matter of connecting the dots. Perhaps more people have become cooperating witnesses too.
“This man can get any test score on demand — he’s the secret weapon in the college cheating scam…”
I’m curious, though, whether the requested accommodations, particularly the two-day variety, allowed this “genius” to snap pictures of the exam on DAY ONE (original date), research answers overnight and come back with correct answers on DAY TWO. Obviously, if he got the client a private room exception and he was the proctor, the kid didn’t have to take the test at all. Riddell would simply submit his own answers (using online support or graphing calculator or phone-a-friend or whatnot). We will never know.
Riddell may be evil, but not necessarily a genius – and still get a perfect score.
Not sure how you define revenue sports. Hockey at Yale? Lacrosse at Princeton? Does football or basketball generate revenue for any Ivy?
And specific to this scandal, wasn’t it tennis and crew coaches using spots for kids with low academic scores?
“…So copies of the actual test are mailed to this parent before the test. And she didn’t copy them and share with anyone else who might be taking the test that weekend?”
How the heck did the cheaters get the exam ahead of time? Does ACT/SAT send copies to proctors ahead? How far ahead, and how do they monitor the recipients for honesty? Jeebus, if I were a crooked test proctor, I’d sell copies of the test ---- how about $10K to test prep professionals, and $5K for individual test takers. This could be a very lucrative gig.
There’s more to come on this Riddell guy.
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I’m pretty sure I asked that we move on from discussion of AI on this thread.; there’s a whole Athletic Recruiting subforum where they love to do analysis paralysis on the topic. 
And yes, FB & BB generate revenue at Ivy League schools
“Featured” sport is probably more accurate than revenue. FB and hoops everywhere. But then more often sports like lacrosse or ice hockey where the Ivies can succeed at a high level (at least sometimes).
And you’d expect that the monkey business would be more likely to occur in the non-featured sports. Less attention. Coaches probably getting paid less too. So the Penn hoops kid is the outlier.
Penn basketball is actually a decent sized thing in the Ivy League and also in Philadelphia. Penn’s arena the Palestra is an historic venue for college basketball and the traditional home of Philadelphia’s Big 5. Which is a non-conference “city league” for Penn, Villanova, St. Joes, Temple and Lasalle. Penn was 4-0 this year (including a Nova win).
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